Ruling — Nanty Narking

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How do I setup the game?

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To setup the game, follow these steps:

1. Place the board on the table.[1]

2. Each player takes a set of playing pieces in a chosen colour, consisting of twelve Agent standees and six Building standees.[1]

3. Shuffle the Personality cards (no. 126-132) and deal one to each player, keeping them secret until victory conditions are met or the game ends.[1]

4. Place the remaining Personality cards to the side without revealing them.[1]

5. Each player places one of their Agents in The East End, The City, and Chelsea.[1]

6. Place a Trouble marker in each of these areas.[1]

7. Place the remaining Trouble markers beside the board.[1]

8. Place the money beside the board to form a bank.[1]

9. Each player starts with £10 (one crown and five shillings), which is public information.[1]

10. Place the four Grenadier and three New Citizen standees beside the board.[1]

11. Shuffle the Random Event deck and place it face down beside the board.[1]

12. Separate the Action cards into two decks: the grey background deck (cards no. 1-48) and the brown background deck (cards no. 49-101).[1]

13. Shuffle the brown deck and place it face down, then shuffle the grey deck and place it face down on top of the brown deck.[1]

14. Deal five cards from the top of this combined deck to each player.[1]

15. Place the City Area cards face up beside the map.[1]

16. Each player takes a Player Aid card.[1]

17. Randomly determine the first player.[1]

18. Remove the Action cards Karl Marx and Henry 'Holy' Peter from the deck.[1]

**Alternative Personalities Variant Setup:**

* If using this variant, shuffle the Agent cards and deal 3 cards to each player, then put the remaining Agent cards back into the box without revealing them.[2]

* Shuffle the Building cards and deal 1 card to each player, then set aside the remaining Building cards without revealing them.[2]

* You must choose your Agents to be placed on the board during setup.[2]

**Classic Personalities Variant Setup:**

* Exchange the standard Personality cards Professor Moriarty and Monsieur de Sidonia with their classic Personality cards.[3][4]

* If using this variant, you must change the card #8 Mrs. Hudson with card no. #161.[3][4]

[1] RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook · p.2 · Starting the game · Two players

[2] RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook · p.14 · Alternative Personalities Variant

[3] RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook · p.13 · Classic Personalities Variant · Alternative Personalities Variant

[4] RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook · p.13

Question closed. Friendships intact.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 202 ms · ask 7110 ms · total 7314 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7314 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1301 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1301 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.88209 of 1815 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 29, 2026 01:35 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Starting the game · Two players	p.2	0.048412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Alternative Personalities Variant	p.14	0.045285 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	PLACE A BUILDING · Example. · SCROLL · RANDOM EVENT · PLAY ANOTHER CARD	p.8	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Two players	p.4	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Lord Bellinger, Lord Holdhurst, Lord Balmoral · PLACE AN AGENT · Example.	p.6	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Many Random Events affect Buildings. If you lose a Building, then you must return the corresponding City Area card.	p.10	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Classic Personalities Variant · Alternative Personalities Variant	p.13	0.030622 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Two players	p.4	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 23 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Alternative Personalities Variant	p.14	#2	0.045285 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Classic Personalities Variant · Alternative Personalities Variant	p.13	#7	0.030622 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Two players	p.4	#4	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Lord Bellinger, Lord Holdhurst, Lord Balmoral · PLACE AN AGENT · Example.	p.6	#5	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)		p.13	#19	0.012658 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Building card effects	p.16	#10	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Starting the game · Two players	p.2	#1	0.048412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)		p.13	#9	0.029907 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Starting the game · Two players	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Alternative Personalities Variant	p.14	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)	Classic Personalities Variant · Alternative Personalities Variant	p.13	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Nanty Narking — Rulebook (corpus doc 1301)		p.13	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 202 ms · first delta 2888 ms · total 7314 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 202 ms · ask 7110 ms · gateway work 7314 ms · total 7314 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3271
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 563
tok/sec: 129.3 tok/sec — 563 output tokens in 4.354 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 0s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 5s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 1231), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.